I took an entire year off after all the surgeries and began lifting again this June. I’ve been lifting for about a month and my muscle memory is simply not kicking in. My strength is barely increasing at all. Over the past several months, I’d been feeling extremely emotional(lots of ups and downs), continually exhausted, feeling very weak-minded(feminine emotions, crying at movies/music, very anxious), HORRIBLE brain fog. In fact, my brain fog has been so bad that it’s been difficult to function in simple daily activities. For example, I’ll spend an hour looking for my phone and then realize it’s in my pocket. Another example…my job is a highly detailed job as an engineering assistant. One of my duties is to refill chemical tanks. Multiple times within the same month, I put the wrong chemicals in the wrong tanks and almost lost my job. I felt like I was going crazy. I couldn’t even read through one page of a book and remember what I’d just read. Overall, I’ve felt very weak as a man. I can’t even remember feeling that “zing” that I used to feel in highschool. Waking up every morning used to be so easy, now it’s an extremely difficult chore.

I finally went and got bloodwork done by a natural/wellness doctor. She does a lot of work with thyroid, candida overgrowth, leaky gut, and other ailments that few mainstream doctors will examine or even acknowledge.

She had me take saliva samples with a personal home kit at 8 am, 12 pm, 4 pm, and 8 am and then bring the results into a labcorp. She also performed a full panel blood test. Attached in a microsoft document are the screenshotted results along with her comments.

Thyroid problems can be caused by an iodine deficiency from not using iodized salt.

outer eyebrows sparse?

feel cold easier?

Check oral body temperatures as per the thyroid basics sticky. If body temperatures are low, thyroid function is low
Stress of surgeries and other stresses might have affected adrenal glands. Cortisol might be low and rT3 could be elevated.

That's the weird thing. Both hypothyroidism and estrogen are commonly associated with high body fat. I am extremely lean though and have always been that way. I spent the last year eating a horrible diet and still have a six pack, very clear serratus muscles, and visible veins all over my arms and in my groin area.

Moved to this thread since I couldn’t figure out how to attach photos/documents. Thanks KSman!